SÓ PRODEUS HEIN?

Prodeus é frenético como outros jogos do mesmo gênero porém o game não sai muito da sua "zona de conforto".

Prodeus é um jogo que arrisca pouco e acaba não conseguindo se diferenciar de jogos do gênero que já existiam a 20 anos atrás.
Ele traz uma estética meio genérica (Parece um Doom clássico em HD com gráficos neon), uma trilha sonora totalmente padrão e uma narrativa irrelevante num nível que você nem entende direito o que tá rolando.

Porém como nos jogos clássicos antigos do gênero o game acerta principalmente no seu level design e numa jogabilidade familiar.

O level design se complementa a loja do game. Alguns segredos das fases contém uma moeda própria do game (Tem muitas delas em determinadas fases). Além de servirem para comprar armas, o jogo oferece algumas habilidades para compra, como o pulo duplo por exemplo.

O jogo consegue ser interessante mas não significa que é um baita jogo...Tá aí um dos jogos já feitos...

PRÓS(deus):
- Level design muito bom.
- Armas legais.

CONTRAS:
- Jogo "seguro" demais, não se arrisca muito em nada.
- Um pouco repetitivo demais.

A slightly above average throwback shooter that shamelessly cribs from Doom 2016 in almost everyway. The game does mostly feel good; the weapons and enemy feedback are solid and I was constantly switching between weapons through the whole game. The game starts strong, peters out for some time in the middle, but the last level is pretty neat. The checkpoint system isn't the best implemented though as it just allows you to facetank through everything because all the enemies you killed stay dead. And in a way it feels like that's to cover up how some of the enemies are just bullshit, namely one enemy that's fast and has homing lasers that are almost hitscan that just shreds you; with half of the time the enviroments you're fighting them in don't really give you sufficient cover. It's not a bad game and I had fun with it, but its rather forgettable when there's a bunch of superior boomer shooter throwbacks out there that I would recommend playing first, such as Cultic and Postal: Brain Damaged which both came out this year too.

Prodeus is a fun Doomer shooter that I think feels like a mixture of classic DOOM and NuDOOM. There are like 15 weapons, and I cycled between most of them regularly. There is a 3D map that shows the whole level (gotta get the auto map for the level first) and thats really cool, but I do find it very overwhelming to look at so I didnt. I think the main complaint I have is that for like 50% of the game (the beginning half), the maps are mostly same-y and only does the later half switch it up. Also you don't get another punch/melee weapon. The weapon chart makes it seem like you could get one, but thats probably so it looks uniform, disappointed me.

The game also has a built in map editor and community section so you can just play community maps and its very simple to do so thats neat. The tag searching functionality sucks though.

You know how FPS games used to be called "DOOM clones"? Well, this is the first FPS in 25 years that's actually first and foremost a DOOM clone rather than an FPS.

Not as distinct as other boomer shooters that come out recently, and certainly doesn't hold a candle to wonderful New Blood catalogue of games. 75% of the game is visually very brown and red, even if levels are different. Speeds up by the end with icy, space, and church levels, but they're each like a level as opposed to the factory that's going on for most of the game, for some reason.

Wish it had more of an identity, but it still looks and sounds quite good and has wonderful punchy combat.

not even close to finishing this but I wanted to write something because there's a weird discrepancy here between the reviews and the overall rating and I think that's just because there isn't a lot to say about it if you like it. This is Doom 3 for people who hate Doom 3, it's a loud and excessive game (though in a very different way to the original Doom games) that you'll know whether you like or not in the first 10 minutes. It's fun, guns are punchy and it plays basically just as Brutal Doom with a more consistent aesthetic but as someone who's played a quite a few of these Boomer Shooters I found it kind of junk food-ish as I went through levels with my brain completely switched off just gunning through enemies. I don't really get anything from its aesthetic and outside of that it's just a really polished Boomer Shooter, which is fine, that's all it's trying to be but I think it's worth noting going in.

If you're curious about it play the first level and then see if you want to refund it or not because I guarantee you'll know based on that.

this is basically just a lost doom game that somebody found and released with some modernization and a light coat of paint. if doom 3 or doom 64 didnt please you, this can be your head canon doom 3. its strengths are the visuals and level design. the enemies all stand out from one another and the sprite-ification of their models looks really good. the blood is also some of the best blood in a video game. walls will be painted red, new seas of blood will cover the facilities you traverse. combat is pretty standard, it's what to expect from a boomer shooter but its done pretty well to be fun with the vast arsenal of satisfying weapons. overall a good boom shoot, though im not entirely sure if i'd call this a must-play for the genre.

I'm fuming. First BoundingBox mutilated what made secrets a compelling level design technique in the first place by changing most of them from powerups that aid in your completion of a level into a collectible shop currency. Then they have the audacity to start locking these currency locations behind powerups stuck in the ingame shop. What makes this extra fucking obnoxious is that Prodeus is so mind numbingly easy that only scoreplay has a hope of being compelling. Scoreplay that you cannot effectively engage with until you've 100%ed the game because there are no leaderboard categories and these powerups and unlockable weapons provide players with new advantages. The utter incompetence of design on display here is genuinely fucking infuriating. There's not even any ingame communication to aid the player in figuring out how the actual scoring system even WORKS. It's the laziest possible implementation I've seen in a long time.
So now I'm paranoid about wasting my time in a level searching for ore that I might just not be capable of collecting without the double jump. This doesn't compel me to explore thoroughly, I'm just going to look up a 100% guide because this is fucking stupid. No part of the experience is enhanced by having a shop system. Even the shop is badly designed. Rather than a quick to access menu it's a physical time wasting fluff "level" that requires a loading screen. Every level suffers from a unity loading screen. Even restarting them.

The entire production is riddled with cripplingly idiotic decisions. Community maps are locked behind a third-party account. Unlike in any of the actually well designed id shooters that Prodeus is unimaginatively aping.
Nexus Points are Vita Chambers and Vita Chambers were never good. There's no in level saving systems because the devs genuinely couldn't figure out how to implement one into Unity. I'm serious. That's their excuse. There's supposed to be an update "soon" that finally implements saving.
Nexus Points mean that there is absolutely no middle ground between "this game is mindless and uninteresting garbage" and "merely barely okay on max difficulty if you always full restart after death". Speaking of difficulty. It's the lazy boring method of tweaking enemy HP and Damage values by percentages. It's the same low enemy counts regardless. I think maybe they also get more accurate? But I can't be bothered to test because Very Hard was already too much of a snooze so I lack a solid point of reference. The devs claim that they designed Prodeus around "medium". l o l

What's most frustrating is that every part of Prodeus that isn't unique to Prodeus can be some occasionally fine Doom action. It looks good. The guns are fine. The music is pretty good. The levels are "okay".
But every single design decision that deviates away from the source material of Doom only serves to make the game worse. Even the map system is bad. Having an agonizingly slow scroll speed.

Prodeus will never be better than "just fine", and even then only under extreme self imposed challenge.
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Now that the "Prodean" enemies are being introduced more regularly there's been an extreme difficulty spike, however when it comes to dying in a split-second from the trickier encounters near the end of a long level I just wish I could have a normal checkpoint for my first run.
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Yeah the deeper I get into the campaign the angrier I get. The nexus points are a serious problem and it's absurd the devs left early access with them implemented even though they're the most common complaint levied against the design. Dying in a split second near the end of 20 minute mission is awful, but continuing from a nexus point feels cheap. I detest every single defender of Prodeus who claims that any of this is fine because it's a "score attack game" meanwhile the devs have carelessly slapped every single difficulty onto the same leaderboard and effectively declared that you aren't allowed to play the "real" Prodeus until you find all of the worthless macguffins. Every single time I begin to enjoy a level it's ruined by my hyperfixation on just how irredeemably awful the overarching design is. I'm torn on refunding it because I can see that it does eventually become fun.
I just realized precisely why I hate this. Prodeus is the Euroshmup of FPS games. It fails to understand score design. Implements a worthless shop mechanic, and in the spirit of giving the player a health bar just makes the player immortal. Dying is such a measly score penalty that you can often see people who didn't pull off a deathless run on the max difficulty placing in the top 50 spots. Fucking unforgiveable, and I wish to reiterate, there is NO ingame indication of how well you're doing scorewise until after you finish a level, and I only believe that headshots contribute to score because a random forum post claimed they did.
This entire game needs an overhaul.
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I gave up on performing deathless Ultra Hard clears after the prodean enemies became common occurances. The "elite" units among them can be just mean on Ultra Hard. Which is especially frustrating given the average length of the lategame missions.
The penultimate mission was really good though (no prodeans). Now if only the rest of the game was also good. The game still feels unfinished. Not all of the weapons were properly implemented. You never acquire anything for the second and third energy weapon slots.

What would happen if you took Doom (1993) and Doom (2016) and fused them together with cosmic radiation? Prodeus might be as close as we ever get to an answer. The game casts you as a nameless warrior and drops you into a war between Order and Chaos. You’ll blast enemies across a range of faux lo-res environments, from decaying power plants and cities to frozen wastelands and orbital satellites.

Though the baddies you face primarily take their inspiration from Doom, other influences have also crept into the mix. Fireball chucking Xenomorphs appear in spades, and later you’ll encounter enemies that would fit in among the ranks of Starcraft’s Protoss. Why are all these mutants and monsters going berserk on you and each other? I never quite figured that part out, but the visceral action and joy of watching rival factions mow each other down more than made up for the lack of story.

Why sit back and watch enemies tear each other to shreds, though, when you could join the fun yourself? The action in Prodeus moves fast; the weapons look and feel great, and each has a secondary firing option to boot. The Shredders – dual SMGs – let you fire one with reasonable precision or unload both at once to pulverize aliens that get up in your face. Shotguns, meanwhile, come in multiple flavors – my preference is the Super Shotgun, which can fire four shells at once to drop nearly any monster, big or small. There are also rockets, grenades, energy weapons, and last but not least the Chaos Caster. The Caster’s primary firing mode is a lightning attack that leaps between nearby enemies, while its secondary fire option turns it into a sniper rifle.

Yes, I said sniper rifle. But make no mistake: You’ll never find yourself hunkering down in a foxhole and waiting for enemies to pop out of cover. Prodeus plays hard and fast, the level design always funneling you forward. There are few puzzles or mysteries to ponder over, unless you want to uncover all of the secrets.

Unfortunately, many secrets are only reachable with extra abilities – abilities you only unlock late in the campaign. Realizing that I wouldn’t be able to find all the hidden collectibles in a level on my first visit completely disincentivized me from hunting for them. There was nothing more depressing than spotting a precious chunk of ore only to realize that I wouldn’t be able to grab it without a double jump.

I do have a few other nitpicks. The controls on console are a bit wonky, even after tweaking. The game was clearly built for keyboard and mouse first. Also, the difficulty balance feels just a bit off. Using the respawn points makes the game too easy, but disabling them makes the later levels overly punishing. I wish there was a compromise between the two options.

All in all, though, Prodeus is a spectacular throwback FPS. It takes the frantic action of newer shooters and effortlessly blends it with the nostalgia of the 90s classics you know and love. Every aspect from the gameplay to the soundtrack oozes with style. The dissonant synthesized drone of the stage select music will stick in my memory for months if not years to come.

Didn't want to write this review based on the early access version, but I'm really not sure what's with negativity here. Prodeus is quite fine, even good actually. It's boomer comfort food, so initially I have also been wondering how it's marginally different from flashy Doom wads, but strenghts of it became apparent as I progressed.

The level design is pretty tight, encounters are well paced and there's great variety to how they flow level to level. From descending vertical floors to vast horizontal fields, I had plenty of neat gameplay moments simply due to good enemy spawns and level layouts. The weapon balance so far has been some of the best in the genre as I found situations where every weapon out of initial 11 has been particularly useful. Even plasmagun which is usually just an underwhelming replaceable projectile assault rifle has a neat quirk that makes the gun very handy if you need to shoot something down from safety behind the corner.

If I had to nitpick it that would be for lacking visual clarity in enemy silhouttes, which is not that bad usually, but in a game about enemy prioritization and space management it led to a few frustrating moments when I confused a shotgunner with a simple zombie or didn't notice an approaching pressure demon. Also weapons requiring reloading went against my instincts initially, but it was fine once I adjusted.

Verdict so far? Pretty cool. We'll see how it goes once the full game is out.

Prodeus is another one of this most recent crop of boomer shooters, those modern games throwing back to those famous 90s shooters like DOOM and Quake. You know, like DUSK, or Ultrakill, or Amid Evil. All of these games either throw back to a specific game (DUSK → Quake, for example) or chart entirely new paths with old mechanics (Ultrakill), but rarely do these games feel like an amalgam of eras like Prodeus does. It’s not groundbreaking, it’s not tied to old tech, instead it’s lifted bits and pieces from all over, while still primarily rooting itself in the land of DOOM and Quake.

However, when ya boot it up, the first game you’ll think of is definitely DOOM. A bit more sci fi, a bit shinier, a bit [modern rendering techniques over sprites], but broadly it feels like, well, Brutal DOOM. That is, DOOM with more GORE and the ability to aim up and down. That’s definitely at the core of the design here. The levels are mazes with key/door puzzles, the enemies are flat sprites, hell the enemies are mostly the same types as in DOOM, but there’s more here. Like, the levels are mazes, but they’re not really labrynthine like DOOM. They’ve got a bit of that ol Quake invisible hand, and a variety in level design (switching from classic maze-em-ups to killboxes to linear Half-Lifey corridors. The weapons are a similar story, like sure you’ve got your classic shotgun and pistol and rocket launcher, but you’ve got some cool alien weapons (one of which recalls Prey 2006), and all of the guns have cool weird alt fires, almost in a Bulletstorm kinda way. Like I said, it’s not groundbreaking, but it’s kinda pulling from everywhere, and it’s satisfying in that way.

I don’t really have much more to say unfortunately. The campaign is fine, full of good levels, but doesn’t really have an arc to it. The visual variety is all backloaded into the last 6 levels of the game, and while the gameplay itself is varied, the pacing of the gameplay is kinda flat. Still, a lot of the merit of this game is its extensive and pretty easy to use level editor, with which people’ve made not just new levels but whole campaigns, which is SUPER dope.

So yeah, it’s a pretty fun but occasionally flat boomer shooter with a robust level editor and influences from all over the genre. Play it if ya like the genre, or if you want good casual shootin fun to kill some time. Me, I probably won’t revisit it

From what I saw of Prodeus before I actually played the game, nothing particularly impressed me but it reviewed highly and as a fan of the genre I felt like this will be worth a shot.

On the surface Prodeus seems very standard and underneath?
It's the same, very standard.

If I could use one word to describe the game it would be 'fine', the enemies and weapons are modeled beautifully but they are pretty generic, there's nothing imaginative about Prodeus' arsenal and the weapons in the game are downright mediocre, sure they can cause enemies to burst in a fountain of blood but they don't sound that punchy.

The soundscapes in general seems mediocre from enemy sounds to the environmental audio to the music there's nothing remarkable about any of it. Which is a shame cause I am a huge fan of the composer Andrew Hulshult.

The levels are long boxy tech bases which reminded me heavily of Doom 2016s levels but these levels felt like they went on for longer with very little variety, it's just techbase after techbase all of which look boring and the dull colour palette definitely doesn't help that feeling.

If I have to summarise my issues it's the fact that the game has no identity I can point to as it's own, it neither has an atmosphere unique to it, nor any story to speak of. It doesnt even have any memorable boss fights it's just straight up one encounter to the next for 10 hours but it doesnt do much to spice up this structure with anything.

Prodeus is what would have happened if Brutal Doom started development after Doom 2016 came out. If you can read that sentence and think "that sounds good", then you'll like it. If you, like me, think "oh no", then you're going to be in for the video game equivalent of a kid wearing their dad's clothes and pretending to be a grown-up. Prodeus has no identity of its own, because it wants more than anything to be Doom. It is not Doom.

Drawing parallels from one work to another is almost always the easiest way to discuss something new, and it's also lazy; it's rhetoric better suited for advertising than for critical analysis. With this in mind, it's impossible not to draw unfavorable comparisons to Doom. Enemies from Doom are lifted and placed directly into Prodeus down to their very silhouettes and attack patterns: Zombiemen are now called "Zombies", Imps are now called "Fiends", Pinkies are now called "Lungers", and Pain Elementals and Lost Souls are "Void Reapers" and "Skull Fish", respectively. They're virtually identical, with the exception that Prodeus's enemies are simultaneously less colorful, less memorable, and less easy to differentiate from one another at a glance. They're all some flavor of orange (or blue) and black, melting into both themselves and the boring backgrounds. It's nearly impossible to judge the game on its own merits, because it's mechanically just Doom but worse. The guns feel worse to use than Doom's. Your movement is more sluggish than Doom's. The levels are less interesting than Doom's. The enemies are never utilized in interesting combinations the way that they are in Doom. There's nothing here that isn't done better in either the original Doom or Doom 2016, leaving Prodeus in a murky, bland in-between. If Doom was hell, then Prodeus is limbo.

This might have the ugliest UI I've seen in a long time. There's a glowing helmet visor bordering the screen, framing the garish, neon-blue icons of health, and ammo, and a cut-out of the protagonist's face (because Doom did it, so we'll put it in). It's mitigated somewhat by the fact that you can turn these HUD elements completely off, but it leaves you lacking so much critical information that it all has to stay on. Tooltip pop-ups in what appear to be a default system font won't stop taking up an entire third of the screen with useless information; "You can rebind your weapons in the Options menu!" Thank you, Prodeus. "Kill the Slayer!" I was planning to, Prodeus. "EXIT!" Yes, that is where the end of the level is, Prodeus. All three of these messages show up back-to-back in the span of about two minutes in a single level. The game is absolutely terrified that if you get stuck for so much as a second that you won't love it anymore. It's like a dog with separation anxiety.

The greatest shock of the game still lies in the soundtrack. It's some of the most boring, plodding, repetitive electro-industrial music I've heard in any game. It aspires towards some sort of dynamic gameplay integration (because Doom did it, so we'll put it in), but it awkwardly fades between "brutal" synth-y riffs and ambient beeping, because the only thing it's keeping track of is how many enemies you're in an active fight with. I couldn't believe that this was Andrew Hulshult's work. It's so incredibly phoned-in and flavorless that I was convinced it was someone poorly imitating him; fitting, given how poor of an imitation Prodeus is.

Map design is an unquestionably strong point in Prodeus's favor. I've read that most of the level design work was dumped into the lap of a seasoned Doom WAD designer — at this point I have to imagine that you're getting tired of seeing the word "Doom" so much — and it shows. The maps are flawlessly put together. Everything loops back into itself neatly, providing clear paths back towards previously-locked keycard doors and towards the next monster room. What hurts them is the bland visual presentation. While Prodeus's graphics are technically impressive, with lots of very shiny lighting effects and dozens upon dozens of unique sprites for every possible angle you could look at them from, it's artistically boring. Everything is either some flavor of the most basic blue-orange color contrast you've ever seen or lifted wholesale from a Doom Eternal set piece. The game proudly boasts that everything here was made using the in-game level editor, but who cares? The Prodeus mapping scene is already on life support, and Doom WADs have been going strong for nearly thirty years. Who's going to bother learning how to map for a game like Prodeus when Doom II is free, comes with better documentation, offers stronger community support, and is ultimately just more fun to play?

Prodeus is painfully mediocre. It feels like a game invented to be played by an actor on a TV show. The four-hour long, piss-easy campaign takes a backseat to the wholly neglected level editor, leaving Prodeus feeling more like a tech demo than a finished game. After two entire years in early access, the state that it's in now is kind of sad. I can't bring myself to hate it, but it hasn't earned nearly enough pity for me to recommend it. Just play Doom.

I forgot to log this when I beat it lmao

Pretty fun boomer shooter! I feel some levels are kinda whatever and almost feel samey to an extent, sometimes being cluttered and claustrophobic for some unfair deaths, but others feel more tightly designed and have a better sense of fairness to it imo. The enemies are nice and varied but specific ones I seem to have more issue trying to kill, especially the more enhanced Prodeus units which are more annoying.

That said, it is a really fun boomer shooter especially with a friend and it's got a good flow to it's combat and platforming.